The Level of Sports Career Predicts Mental Training Levels of Student Athletes

Ugurlu A.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY, cilt.9, sa.6, ss.269-272, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 9 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.269-272
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Mental Training, Sports career, Student-athlete, Sport, Performance, Psychological skill, SKILL, PACKAGE, ANXIETY
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Previous researches showed that mental training is helpful to enhance performance. This study aimed to investigate mental training levels of student athletes according to their level of sports career. The study was conducted at Akdeniz University. A total number of 206 sport science student athletes, 102 (49.5) female and 104 (50,5) male, participated in the study voluntarily. Considering the athletes' level of sports, there are 76 professionals and 130 amateur athletes. As a data collection instrument Turkish version of the sport mental training questionnaire was used. ANOVA was used in the data analysis. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 25.0 package program. For the distribution of the data, the skewness and kurtosis values were examined with a range of +2 and -2, and regression analysis was carried out to determine the power of the independent variable in predicting the dependent variable for the purpose of the research. As a result of the current research, level of sport career positively predicts sport mental training level of student athletes, and the current study is determined that professional athletes have higher mental training skills than amateur athletes.